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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: Warns of Anti-White 'Aggression' in U.S.

2021-04-03

[The Moscow Times] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday warned that anti-white racism might be building in the United States and said that political correctness "taken to the extreme" would have lamentable consequences.

Wasn’t political correctness a Communist invention? Control the vocabulary and you control what people can think — that kind of thing. Your President Putin must be so proud of his KGB predecessors.

In an interview with political scientists broadcast on national television, Moscow's top diplomat said Russia had long supported a worldwide trend that "everyone wants to get rid of racism."

"We were pioneers of the movement promoting equal rights of people of any skin color," he said.

But Lavrov stressed it was important "not to switch to the other extreme which we saw during the 'BLM' (Black Lives Matter) events and the aggression against white people, white U.S. citizens."

Founded in the United States in 2013, Black Lives Matter is a movement which became a rallying cry after the killing by U.S. police of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, last May.

The movement has led to a major debate about race, rights of people of color and the toppling of statues of figures linked to slavery or colonization in countries including the United States and the United Kingdom.

Lavrov accused the United States of seeking to spread what he called "a cultural revolution" around the world.

"They have colossal possibilities for it," he said in the interview.

"Hollywood is now also changing its rules so that everything reflects the diversity of modern society," he said, calling that "a form of censorship."

"I've seen Black people play in Shakespeare's comedies. Only I don't know when there will be a white Othello," Lavrov said.

"You see this is absurd. Political correctness taken to the point of absurdity will not end well."

Posted by:3dc

#4

Borrowed the logo from a popular contemporary band
Applied it to the other office the FM Heads in Russia
Lavrov = Ministry Of The Obvious

Posted by: Caesar McCoy8523 2021-04-03 05:32

#3 The advanced world is laughing at us now. They see white Americans cringing and cowering and weeping and think we've gone mad. They're right

Posted by: Glagum Gleth7722 2021-04-03 03:23

#2 Or just, "In America they lynch caucasians!"

Posted by: Ebberetle Chavilet9598 2021-04-03 03:19

#1 Former communist countries - the only voice of sanity left in the world?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-03 01:57

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